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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 02: Amy Schumer attends the “Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology” Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com)

By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Friday, June 24, 2016

Female stand-up comics can headline theaters-sized venues such as Cobb Energy and the Tabernacle. Among that selected group: Margaret Cho, Lisa Lampanelli and Maria Bamford (coming this fall to the Tabernacle).

But Amy Schumer is the first solo woman to headline Philips Arena in its history that I know of. (If anybody can come up with another name, I’d be happy to correct this but no names come to mind. Joan Rivers, for instance, did Atlanta Symphony Hall in 2014 before she passed.) Schumer – who stars Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer” – will be at Philips October 15 as part of a 50-city tour.

Tickets go on sale Tuesday, June 28 at 10 a.m. Presale starts today (Friday) at 10 a.m. through Monday at 10 p.m. (code: “amylive”). An befitting an A list comic, the prices are not cheap: $73 to $110. (You can buy them here soon.)